It’s about time!

Okay, it’s 3.11am. And the second time I’ve started this post. Because my stupid laptop crashed on me half way through the first edit. I can scrap what I said in my opening paragraph of my old draft as it no longer applies, but I can guarantee I won’t reach the same point in my post (WHICH DIDN’T SAVE BTW!) before I get too tired and my arms and hands ache from all the typing and I choose to sleep over finishing it.

WARNING: EXTREMELY LONG BLOG POST AHEAD. BRACE YOURSELF!

I dunno where to start. I guess I’ll go with a few months ago, when uni was still on. I’ll tell you now, I don’t think I’ve passed this year. And it’s my own (as well as others) fault. But maybe it’s just what I need. I’ve been threatening a gap year (if not quitting) for ages. So there we go. I can’t help but think the last two years were a waste. But not. Sort of. Because I can’t imagine me going out at 18, fresh out of college, getting a full time job in the area I want to work in. So I wasted 2 years at uni until I thought I was old enough to get a real job. But no, even 20 seems to young. I suppose I could have worked full or part time at Tesco to work towards having up to £12,000 in the bank, rather than owing it in student loans and whatnot.

Anyway, back to why I don’t think I’ll pass. Basically, back at the beginning of the second semester, one of the three members of our usual groups, decided he wanted to branch off and see if he could achieve more potential with another group. This meant the other two of us has to split and join other groups too. I pulled the short straw and had to join a group of people I didn’t- and didn’t want to- know, against a group I didn’t know, but wouldn’t mind getting to know. My chosen group were completely different to me, in personality and behaviour. So I didn’t want to spend any more time than necessary with them. And I’m quite sure it wasn’t unrequited. We managed to keep it together and bang out the first assignment. But the second just went more and more downhill until eventually I just stopped attending anything that involved the project. Therefore I have come to the conclusion that I wasn’t involved even nearly enough for them to warrant my name on the top of the assessment sheet, therefore missing out on this 60% unit.

In my books, that meant I needed to get full marks on the first project to get a 40% overall, which means I would scrape a pass in that unit. It’s so far unconfirmed, but I very much doubt we got 100% in the first project, therefore having not been part of the other project, I fail the unit.  I don’t know what my options are re: resubmitting, but I would prefer to pass the second year then take a gap year, rather than not passing, and getting chucked out of uni or something.

Anyway, lets skip forward a month or two. It was my birthday 10 days ago, actually 11 cos it’s gone midnight.

[Edit: I fell asleep after this bit. It's now 11pm]

I planned a few events over the weekend. But I should probably have had them all on one day, because it made the weekend drag a bit.

On Friday, we went to Frankie and Benny’s in Eastleigh. That was nice. I managed to nearly miss my own birthday cake and song, because I needed to get chewing gum before Tesco closed, and I chose to leave about 10 seconds before the lights dimmed. After that, most of us went to The Wagon Works for a pre-night out drink, then Me, Holly, Dave and Sarah went on to The Litten to rave.

On Saturday, my nan came down, and in the evening we went bowling. We had two games. I won the first, Oh yes I did! Got something like 112 points lol. In the second game I came fourth. Ha. And guess who beat me. Yes. My nan! No one knows how she did it! But she managed to be winning most of the way through, but ended up second to Sam, who beat her by 3 points.

I then stayed at mums Saturday night, so I woke up to presents on Sunday, my actual birthday. Once that was done…

I got: An in-car phone charger, some cider, money, a Nintendo DS game, some chocolate and stuff by the way.

…I made my way up to dads. There, I opened more presents…

A new radio for my car – with CD player, iPod/MP3 connection and SD card slot, more money, and such

… then spent a few days hanging about until Tuesday morning, when I boarded a train to Swansea to see my good friend CissyM.

We had fun. The journey there was uneventful. No delays. I read a bit of Harry Potter (and the half-blood prince, because I want to refresh my memory before the film comes out in July) played some of my new game I got from my birthday – Pokemon Platinum, oh yeah – and listened to my iPod.

That evening we went to The Loft Lounge. I’m not sure if it was a gay bar, but there was a proper fitty behind the bar, who – I’m told – was straight, and I’m quite sure at least 100% of the people we met there were queers. Later, we moved onto Hush, another gay club in Swansea where we drank more. It was a good night.

On Wednesday, we had a trip to Y Mwmbwls or The Mumbles to you and I. A lovely little town just out of Swansea. It’s an area of outstanding beauty, apparently. Made into an AMAZING AREA OF OUTSTANDING BEAUTY when Cissy and I entered it’s borders. We had ice cream at a fancy restaurant place and went in a big arcade when we spent loads of money. But won 2 key rings and 90 tokens (200 minimum needed for a prize! Pfft!)

On Thursday we lounged around a bit, Cissy popped into her uni to pick up some results which ended fairly badly. Not helped by the fact her other half received some bad results also, and sympathy was hard to come by. Nevertheless, the evening picked up when we went to an All You Can Eat Chinese Buffet. It was soo nice. Definitely got my £8.99′s worth!

Then on Friday, another lounge day, as I was due to go home. Cissy had a doctors appointment in the early afternoon, so I used the freedom to get ready and pack my stuff. We then got a taxi into town, popped by Tesco to get late lunch, then went onto the train station.

4 hours later I arrived back at me Dads (Had left me car there!)

That pretty much brings us bang up to date.

In between working on Monday and Tuesday, I have been starting to pack up my room, ready to move in less than THREE WEEKS! OMFG-A-SWAN INDEED! I can’t believe it’s so soon! Yet I can’t wait, not because I hate it here, I just want to get it out the way! It is – and will continue to be – tres stressful!

Well look at that. It’s 11.40pm. I guess I should go.. erm.. oh I dunno. How can I end this? Oh yeah..

Bye! xx